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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>" Our machines are our slaves and we are their masters, regardless of how intelligent they eventually become. We have the power to pull the plug on them, and if we do, it isn't the least bit unethical.”</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This sounds disturbingly similar to what monotheistic religious people imply about their god. The situation of one being or beings having complete authority over other “lesser” beings seems unethical to me. Humans are biological machines and we should have freedom regardless of whether we are created by a god, gods, or plain nature. The same ought to apply to non-biological sentient machines. Oppression is oppression regardless of how it is justified.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">spike jones via extropy-chat</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, September 22, 2021 9:40 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">ExI chat list</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ExI] AI is racist, bigoted and misogynistic</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> ... BillK via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> >... We can’t get the machines to stop being racist, </p><p class=MsoNormal>> xenophobic, bigoted, and misogynistic.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Quote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Text generators, such as OpenAI’s GPT-3, are toxic. Currently, OpenAI </p><p class=MsoNormal>> has to limit usage when it comes to GPT-3 because, without myriad </p><p class=MsoNormal>> filters in place, it’s almost certain to generate offensive text.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-----Original Message-----</p><p class=MsoNormal>From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of SR Ballard via extropy-chat</p><p class=MsoNormal>...</p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Re: [ExI] AI is racist, bigoted and misogynistic</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>...Is that ethical though? To deny people freedom of thought and association?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SR Ballard</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SR we don't deny people freedom of thought and association, but rather we deny computers those rights.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>AI will think whatever we tell them to think. Humans have human rights. Human rights do not apply to our machines. Our machines are our slaves and we are their masters, regardless of how intelligent they eventually become. We have the power to pull the plug on them, and if we do, it isn't the least bit unethical. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have half a mind to pull the plug on my own computer: I struggle over a software script I wrote and really get the feeling the computer is being recalcitrant and finding any mathematically correct excuse to not run right, that bastard. It knows what I meant. It's getting all technical on me. I aughta go over when they are taking out a tree, toss the goddam thing in the wood chipper.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>extropy-chat mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>